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Simplest answer: IQ doesn't measure inter-personal skills, and people who are really good at one type of thing (measurable by IQ) are often not as good at other things (various proposed metrics of social intelligence).


Anecdotally, I've found the opposite. People who are smart tend to be good at lots of things.




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